Eastern Shore Files with FERC to Expand Delmarva Pipeline

January 10, 2017

In July 2016 MDN told you about a smallish, but important pipeline project in the Delmarva Peninsula area, which includes most of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia. Eastern Shore Natural Gas’ 2017 System Expansion project will bring new sources of natgas from an interconnection Eastern Shore has with the mighty TETCo (Texas Eastern Company) pipeline near Philadelphia (see PA/MD/DE Pipeline Project Heats Up with Open House Mtgs This Week). Although Eastern Shore, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, ran a non-binding open season in 2015, and although they pre-filed for the expansion project in May 2016, they have only just filed a full, official application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Originally the project was slated to run ~33 miles of pipeline looping in PA, MD and DE. That number seems to have gone down, to 23 miles. Compressor upgrades and other pipeline will also be added. Chesapeake Utilities, the parent company, calls the project the single largest such expansion in Eastern Shore’s history, a project that will bump up gas delivery volumes by 25%…